Edible insect cookbooks
Chefs and food culture play a large role in determining the acceptance of foods. In some cases, those who would be averse to eating a whole grasshopper might enjoy a mealworm cupcake instead. Here are examples of cookbooks that feature insect recipes:

The State Department recognized the global weight of the EU opinion and tried to “limit the influence of EU negative views on biotechnology.”

In Europe, the State Department has targeted the EU to weaken the regulatory safeguards that have delayed the approval of GE crops and to force the EU to accept biotech imports. Almost two-fifths of all biotech cables (38.0 percent) were from embassies in EU member states. U.S. embassies tried to persuade nations that had been hostile to biotech crops and to shore up countries that had been supportive. The embassy in France proposed hosting a conference highlighting how biotech can “help address food shortages in the developing world” as a tactic to counteract France’s negative public opinion of GE crops.

The State Department worked especially hard to promote the interests of Monsanto, the world’s biggest biotech seed company in 2011. Monsanto appeared in 6.1 percent of the biotech cables analyzed between 2005 and 2009 from 21 countries. The State Department exercised its diplomatic persuasion to bolster Monsanto’s image in host countries, facilitate field-testing or approval of Monsanto crops and intervene with governments to negotiate seed royalty settlements.

Consumers worldwide want to know what is in their food, but biotech companies and food manufacturers would rather keep consumers in the dark about the contents of their grocery carts. The State Department has lobbied against efforts to require labeling of biotech foods. About one out of eight biotech cables (11.6 percent) from 42 nations between 2005 and 2009 addressed biotech-labeling requirements. The United States opposed mandatory GE labeling laws as trade barriers because allowing consumers to know the contents of their food also “wrongly impl[ies] that these foods are unsafe.”

eating it from the sides is wasteful. But if you eat it from the top, the core doesn’t even exist.

I felt like Neo in the Matrix, and I just stumbled down a rabbit hole, at the bottom of which someone was telling me, “There is no apple core.”

after doing a mass and volume test, we concluded we were seemingly throwing away anywhere from 15 to 30% of every apple. If you live by the ‘apple a day’ motto, then apples priced at $1.30/lb. will set you back $137 year, with a waste of $42.